Ringing out General Relativity: Quasi-normal mode frequencies for black holes of any spin in modified gravity

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Main Authors: Chung, Adrian Ka-Wai, Yunes, Nicolas
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Published: 2024
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author Chung, Adrian Ka-Wai
Yunes, Nicolas
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Yunes, Nicolas
contents After black holes collide, the remnant settles to a stationary state by emitting gravitational waves. Once non-linearities subside, these ringdown waves are dominated by exponentially-damped sinusoids, or quasinormal modes. We develop a general method using perturbative spectral expansions to calculate the quasinormal-mode frequencies and damping times in a wide class of modified gravity theories for black holes with any subextremal spin. We apply this method to scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity to show its accuracy, thus enabling robust ringdown tests with gravitational wave data.
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spellingShingle Ringing out General Relativity: Quasi-normal mode frequencies for black holes of any spin in modified gravity
Chung, Adrian Ka-Wai
Yunes, Nicolas
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
After black holes collide, the remnant settles to a stationary state by emitting gravitational waves. Once non-linearities subside, these ringdown waves are dominated by exponentially-damped sinusoids, or quasinormal modes. We develop a general method using perturbative spectral expansions to calculate the quasinormal-mode frequencies and damping times in a wide class of modified gravity theories for black holes with any subextremal spin. We apply this method to scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity to show its accuracy, thus enabling robust ringdown tests with gravitational wave data.
title Ringing out General Relativity: Quasi-normal mode frequencies for black holes of any spin in modified gravity
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12280